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<span class=large>ECCLESIASTES</span><br/> OR, THE PREACHER
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CHAPTER 7
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Wisdom giveth life to them that have it—All men are sinners—God hath made man upright.
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A good</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 22: 1.">name</a> <i>is</i> better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
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&#182; <i>It is</i> better to go to the house of <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mourning.">mourning</a>, than to go to the house of feasting: for that <i>is</i> the end of all men; and the living will lay <i>it</i> to his heart.
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Sorrow <i>is</i> better than laughter: for by the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Cor. 7: 10.">sadness</a> of the countenance the heart is made better.
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The heart of the wise <i>is</i> in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools <i>is</i> in the house of mirth.
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<i>It is</i> better to hear the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reproof.">rebuke</a> of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so <i>is</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Laughter; TG Levity.">laughter</a> of the fool: this also <i>is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/7/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>.
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&#182; Surely oppression maketh a wise man <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR a fool (foolish).">mad</a>; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
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Better <i>is</i> the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: <i>and</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Patience.">patient</a> in spirit <i>is</i> better than the proud in spirit.
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Be not <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Rashness.">hasty</a> in thy spirit to be <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/7/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 29: 22 (21-23).">angry</a>: for <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/7/9c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Anger.">anger</a> resteth in the bosom of fools.
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Say not thou, What is <i>the cause</i> that the former days were better than these?  for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
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&#182; Wisdom <i>is</i> good with an inheritance: and <i>by it there is</i> profit to them that see the sun.
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For <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 6: 7.">wisdom</a> <i>is</i> a <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/7/12b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB shade; i.e. a protection.">defence</a>, <i>and</i> money <i>is</i> a defence: but the excellency of knowledge <i>is, that</i> wisdom giveth <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/7/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="Prov. 3: 18 (13-19).">life</a> to them that have it.
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Consider the work of God: for who can make <i>that</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 1: 15.">straight</a>, which he hath made crooked?
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Adversity.">adversity</a> consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
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All <i>things</i> have I seen in the days of my <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>: there is a <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/7/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eccl. 8: 14.">just</a> <i>man </i>that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked <i>man</i> that prolongeth <i>his life</i> in his wickedness.
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Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
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Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
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<i>It is</i> good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR reveres God.">feareth</a> God shall come forth of them all.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 21: 22; Eccl. 9: 16 (16-18); D&C 52: 17.">Wisdom</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/7/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 24: 5.">strengtheneth</a> the wise more than ten mighty <i>men</i> which are in the city.
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For <i>there is</i> not a <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 33: 4.">just</a> man upon earth, that doeth good, and <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/7/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sin.">sinneth</a> not.
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Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
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For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
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&#182; All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it <i>was</i> far from me.
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That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
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I applied mine <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 1: 17; Mosiah 12: 27.">heart</a> to know, and to search, and to seek out <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/7/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 42: 68.">wisdom</a>, and the reason <i>of things,</i> and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness <i>and</i> madness:
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And I find more <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 5: 4.">bitter</a> than death the <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/7/26b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Woman.">woman</a>, whose heart <i>is </i>snares and nets, <i>and</i> her hands <i>as</i> bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/7/26c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Ne. 22: 15 (15-17).">sinner</a> shall be <sup>d</sup><a href="eccl/7/26d" mark="d" type="A" title="Prov. 2: 19.">taken</a> by her.
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Behold, this have I found, saith the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 1: 1.">preacher</a>, <i>counting</i> one by one, to find out the account:
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Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/7/29a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR devices, arts.">inventions</a>.
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